I've been in the field for about five years now, and to date this has been one of my favourite assignments.
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I took the questions to those who could make a difference, asking police and councillors whose responsibility it was to make changes and what could be done to stop the violence.
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A year after my story on the fentanyl crisis in Oshawa was awarded by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association, I decided to follow-up and see how things had progressed.
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When one looked a little deeper, a consultants report from several years prior pointed to the fact that the house could have been moved and preserved, but at a price. It turns out that price tag was considerably more than what the developer was providing as a "donation".
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When the province announced changes to the Municipal Act that would ban the practice of union and corporate donations to municipal campaigns, I figured it would be a good time to pull out my old research and let readers know what I'd found.
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I had the rare opportunity meet with a Durham Regional Police investigator to talk about the police force's efforts to combat those preying on children over the Internet.
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I spent almost two years in courtrooms following along with this case. The kidnapping of the city's lawyer at the hands of a former councillor had occurred before I arrived in Oshawa, but for obvious reasons, the case was notorious.
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When a new development began to spring up in Oshawa's downtown, the condos and apartments were being marketed heavily to prospective tenants. However, a big part of the story was being left out
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The Harbour Lands of the City of Oshawa have a storied history. When the federal government transferred them back to the city years ago, it was left with a deadline to convert the land for certain uses by the end of 2017.
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This story was part of my collection was named as runner-up for best investigative news series by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association in 2016.
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Frank was wrongly accused in the murder of his father and spent months in prison before being exonerated. He's suing the Durham Regional Police because of the ordeal.
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As a result of the story the County of Athabasca fired their chief administrative officer, the man supposedly responsible for monitoring the timesheets and vowed to be more vigilant of the process moving forward.
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